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A26408	A plot for a crown in a visitation-sermon, at Cricklade, May the fifteenth, 1682 : being a parallel between the heir and husband-men in the parable, and the rightful prince and his excluders in Parliament / by N. Adee ...	Adee, N. (Nicholas), d. 1701.	1685 (1685)	Wing A573; ESTC R22248	20,134	40

into the Sanhedrim might be much like to the Election of the new Pope in the Roman Conclave and Members into most of our Diets and Councils in Christendom that is by Bribery and Rewards the Spit and the Spigot Promises and Threats make the new Pope the Burgesses and Burgomasters in most places in Europe If they who were chosen among the Jews had furious Zeal enough for their own Party and Leaders to exalt themselves and to pull down the Crown they had Wit enough though not Wisdom to dive into the merit of the Cause Such as these are giddy enough always to vote against the Heir alas though they are ignorant wherein such Votes may end Their fiery Zeal is such that if they are bid go they 'll run into Murder and Treason too Of this sort were also the Drudges Vassals or Servants of the Husbandmen who looked no farther than the Command of their Masters or Leaders Of which sort there are too many among us who have after the same manner disturbed the Quiet of this our Israel who with Ignatius Loyala account such bloody Obedience better than Sacrifice As Absalom in his Conspiracy 2 Sam. 15.6 v. 11. by his Blandishments stole the hearts of the men of Israel and it 's observable That with him went two hundred men out of Jerusalem that were called and they went in their simplicity and they knew not any thing so how many are there among us who follow the new Deformers but alas they follow them in the simplicity of their hearts not knowing any thing being so amazed with the specious pretensions of Religion and Loyalty that they cannot see what is either for they zealously advise the overthrow of both by consulting the Exclusion of the Heir of our British Vineyard Such brave Fellows as these are the only Husbandmen to become Members in a Fanatick Parliament and their ignorant Followers would serve as well for Church-wardens too My Reason is Because that the one as well as the other have such seared Consciences that they can violate Religion Loyalty Laws and Oaths without remorse with this Salvo if they gain not the better in the cause they 'll say with the Jews they did it ignorantly But I shall prove that some of the Jews could not be ignorant who Christ was whatever they might pretend to the contrary They knew that he was descended from the Royal Line from the Loins of Abraham and the Seed of David But this compared with his other Royalties was but an Act of Christ's Degradation proceeding from his Humiliation Isa 9.7 v. 6. to sit on the Throne of David for he was the mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of Peace His Birth was foretold to them of whom he should be born the very place where and the time when Micah 5. Flav. Dom. caused the line of David to be diligently sought out and extinguished for fear lest he were yet to come out of the House of David which should enjoy the Kingdom Anal. Caesar Rom. even when the whole World was taxed And as I have read that Christ himself stands on the Tax-Roll with Joseph and Mary And it was by the very Providence of God Ham. on Luke 2. that Mary went from Nazareth to Bethlehem to be enrolled that she should there fall in Travel and bring forth that so the Seed of David and Branch of Jesse that was conceived in Nazareth should be born in Bethlehem where Jesse and David was born The Stars of Heaven pointed to him Mat. 29. Luke 2.10 and the Angels did minister unto him and proclaimed his Incarnation All their great and good Kings were figures of this King David spake of him saying Lo I come Ps 40.7 in the Volume of the Book it is written of me that is the whole Volume of Scripture did testisie of him which because it was read unto them every Sabbath-day they could not choose but know that he was their King for as Face answereth Face so Christ answered and fulfilled all those Types Figures and Prophecies that had relation to him Besides we have Pilate's Testimony when the Jews cried out Jo. 19.15 Crucifie him Crucifie him What! said he shall I crucifie your King To which I may add the plain Confession of the Husbandmen here in the Text saying This is the Heir no suppositious or presumptive Heir There was no one living betwixt the Crown and him if it might descend in its right line for this is spoken here as in the Person so in the sense of the whole Nation of the Jews none could deny it Whence we may observe that there was more truth in the conspiring Jews who killed Christ than is among many of our Republicans now for that they did not charge his Birth falsly But as the Jews Confession added to the Confirmation of our Saviour's Title so their so full Acknowledgment of him added to his Grief and Sorrow that they who were his own Tenants Subjects and Servants should plot and conspire his Death and that not rashly but advisedly by the supremest Council of his Kingdom If we enquire where this so horrible Treason was hatched We shall find that it proceeded from their Factions and Divisions which arose from their Lusts Schism in the Church and Sedition in the State have but one Parent that is a Furious and Fanatick Zeal which have ever infested the Church of God in all Ages and have spilt the blood of her Servants from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias which perished between the Altar and the Temple and from the Blood of Zacharias unto the blood of our Messias and from thence unto the blood of our Royal Martyr And as Zacharias was slain by the Jewish Zealots 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the midst of the Temple so Christ and our dear and dread Sovereign were slain in the midst of their own Kingdoms by the Zeal and Treason of their own Subjects And to our Grief be it spoken they rest not there but as Herod when he persecuted the Church and killed James the Brother of John with the Sword and because he saw it pleased the Jews Acts 12.1 2 3. he proceeded farther to take Peter also Thus our Zealots having killed the Father they proceed to take the Sons also This too plainly appears for that they are come as near the Jews Vote in the Text as under the present circumstance of things they durst They are only come yet to vote the Heir out of his Vineyard but if that Act should once pass the great Sanhedrim of our Nation you shall quickly then see what they will be at next Then will follow as in its fit time Come let us once more drive away our great Landlord into a far Country again and then kill the Heir that the Inheritance may be ours Alas there is no wild-fire so raging as an Enthusiastick Zeal it hurries men on against all sense and reason Vt mala quem

A PLOT FOR A CROWN IN A VISITATION-SERMON At CRICKLADE MAY the Fifteenth 1682. Being a Parallel between the Heir and Husband-men in the Parable and the Rightful Prince and his Excluders in Parliament By N. ADEE Vicar of Rodborne-Cheyny in Wiltshire Published in its own Vindication How could'st thou bear thou meeker Moses how Was ever Lion bit with Whelps till now Bl. Trib. Eleg. K. Char. I. Praesens malejudicat Aetas Judicium melius Posteritatis erit LONDON Printed by R. W. and are to be sold by Walter Davis in Amen Corner 1685. THE PREFACE I Do not publish this under the Umbrage of that common Excuse which serves to Usher many Books into the World viz. That I did it at the entreaty or for the satisfaction of Friends But the things which I write have been torn from me through the Midwifery of those Carnifices Obstetrices virulently disaffected and pernicious Tongues Seeing the severe Censures this hath laid under are not yet expired I cannot expect that they 'll ever be buried unless I obviate their obloquy by a Publication Therefore as my whole Country are Witnesses of the Aspersions I have hereby sustained they may now assoil my Infamy And though I have born it so long against my Will yet they 'll now see that I have born it undeservedly I delivered such Truths which I thought necessary to rebuke the Spirit of Rebellion that was gone abroad in those distracted Times neither courting the Favor nor valuing the Displeasure of the most formidable Democraticks being content with the purchase of Reproof and Censure from them whil'st their Meal-mouth'd Orators have been rewarded with Honor and Preferment too If yet nevertheless some Heterogeneous Judgments may condemn me as much for Publishing hereof as for Preaching and it may be not altogether without Cause too seeing I have adventured in Favour to Truth to publish a Discourse prepared for the Pulpit and not for the Press in its Native disorder without the Addition or Diminution of one Sentence I therefore hope the Courteous Reader will in Candor Pardon some rough and harsh Expressions which might easily but not honestly be amended If so I am much pleased whatever may happen that Posterity may know that I never tamely consented to the betraying of the Liberty Property and Prosperity of my Country The Basis whereof is centered in the Succession of the Crown to the Descendants in the Right Line For that Head which God and Nature hath given unto the Body Politick as well as Natural is better than any other though fancied of Gold turning on Spondyles of Silver or whatever Chimera our Republicans insinuated into their Myrmidons The two Houses of Parliament together with their pretended infinite Privileges are but Sprouts from that great Porphyrian Tree the Prerogative Royal which though it be possible for them to shake yet they can never remove without their own Eradication Besides as it is fatal to some Bodies when they are so far corrupted as to breed Serpents in them which die not until they have devoured that Womb which gave them Birth and Being So it is a fatal sign of a decaying Kingdom when it breeds such Vermin which naturally corrode and deface the Head they must needs quickly confound the Symmetry of the whole as some of our state Empericks would have done For a Reprimand of whom I composed this Harangue as the time alotted me would permit and not against any Protestant Members of a Loyal Parliament but only against the exorbitancy of them who sought to bring down the Crown from Perch to popular Lure so to pinion the Prerogative Royal that they might by Parliamentary Privileges perch into the Throne themselves Seeing Church and State in a Conflagration I intended only to point out the Incendiaries and our danger and to throw what drops I could towards the quenching of those Flames whil'st some Men then like Nero did sit and sing at them These things considered I hope notwithstanding the Flouts and Slanders the common Acclamations wherewith this hath been caressed it may meet with a candid Reception from Persons of unprejudicate Judgments considering the time when it was Preached and the Reasons why now Printed It had been Supervacaneous for me as Matters then were to have forsaken my Subject to have prosecuted the Text in the common Method For there was no more need by a Concatenation of Reason and Logical Inference to prove the Analogie of the Text with some Mens Practices at that time than it was to detain a Man to hear proved by long and elaborate Arguments That his House was on Fire when he saw it ready to burn down about his Ears As the Occasion then required Men dayly expecting a more formidable Parliament according unto my bounden Duty 2 Tim. 4.2 I did Reprove Rebuke and Exhort When neither Reason Sir Leol Jenkin's Speech in Parl. Religion nor the Law and Oaths of the Land could prevail all other the most sober Reasoning could be to no purpose for more serious Sentiments were fitter for a more serious and considerate Age. The Theater then if well tuned might have prevailed more with those Clinkers than our well set Pulpits And when the Echo of every Conventicle did resound with the Bigottry of their Demogogues I thought it high time to declaim against their Collusion For nothing makes People more suspicious of Goodness than when they see their Ministers as well as Magistrates to become Flatterers and to follow a Multitude to do evil But my fault hath always been long before I had so publick an opportunity that I was a Cynick rather than a Sycophant towards them who with their deluding Clamors cryed down Arbitrary Principles yet under the form of an Ordinance would have introduced Arbitrary Government To enumerate all the cogent reasons which extorted a Consent from me to prostitute so imperfect a Discourse would swell it beyond the bulk of a Preface Therefore I shall not perplex thee with the rehearsal of all the Motives and Calumnies that occasioned it The Publication hereof being of it self too honourable though too modest a. Refutation of them Yet lest whilst I seek to resartiate my torn Reputation I plunge my self into greater Dishonour by a total silence I shall mention some of the Contumelies and Causes Job 21.3 Suffer me then that I may speak and after that I have spoken let them mock on 1. If I spake Truth yet it was Truth ill said because ill tim'd and Rashness in me one of the meanest of them which serve at the Altar to set my self against the Torrent of the Times making my self vile in the esteem of all sober Persons as the Minions of the Rout stiled themselves as if I had been bereaved of my Intellectuals when I undertook this Enterprize Whereas I am not yet sensible wherein I have committed any great Error unless it be for not taking any man's Advice in the matter But had I consulted with any of them I